Birch Aquarium teams with San Diego Zoo in effort to save endangered native frogs
The La Jolla aquarium reared 250 tadpoles into mountain yellow-legged frogs with plans of releasing them into the wild ...
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SAVING THE FOOTHILL YELLOW-LEGGED FROG
Foothill yellow-legged frogs are striking stream-dwelling amphibians with a distinctive lemon-yellow color under their legs. They live in Pacific drainages from the upper reaches of the Willamette ...
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SAVING THE MOUNTAIN AND SIERRA NEVADA YELLOW-LEGGED FROGS
The mountain yellow-legged frog was once the most abundant amphibian in Southern California's Sierra Nevada and Transverse Ranges. Just decades ago, it was hard to walk around many of California's ...
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It's not fear that makes a frog freeze when it sees a snake
The team placed a Japanese striped snake and a black-spotted pond frog together to study how the snake assaults its prey with its fangs and how the frog tries to flee by jumping. Videos of the ...
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‘Large’-eyed creature — with yellow fingertips — found in China. It’s a new species
Seen from below, their undersides are “flesh-colored” while their fingertips and toes are “pale yellow.” Several views of a Gracixalus weii, or Wei’s tree frog. Photos from Shize Li via ...